ContentsSpring 2021
Branch Issue 2. Cover Illustration: Gica Tam. (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Welcome
Letter from the Editor
Michelle Thorne
Solarpunk and Other Speculative Futures
Swirling Sulas
Superflux
The Trouble with Imagination
Shayna Robinson
Solar Protocol
Tega Brain, Alex Nathanson, and Benedetta Piantella
Data Garden
Cyrus Clarke, Monika Seyfried, and Jeff Nivala
Big Tech Resistance
Climate Disinformation: A Beginner’s Guide
Harriet Kingaby
Big Tech Goes Greenwashing: Feminist Lenses to Unveil New Tools in the Masters’ Houses
Camila Nobrega and Joana Varon
Bigger, More, Better, Faster: The Ecological Paradox of Digital Economies
Paz Peña
Sustainable Web Craft
A Carbon-Aware Internet
Chris Adams
Digital Sustainability: A French Update
Gauthier Roussilhe
Design Options for Sustainable Hardware and Software
Johanna Pohl, Anja Höfner, Erik Albers, and Friederike Rohde
Interview with Digitalization for Sustainability
Johanna Pohl, Maike Gossen, Tilman Santarius and Patricia Jankowski
A Guide to Ecofriendly CryptoArt (NFTs)
Memo Akten, Primavera De Filippi, Joanie Lemercier, Addie Wagenknecht, Mat Dryhurst, and Sutu_eats_flies
AI Promises and Perils
The Promise of AI: Can It Hold for Environmental Sustainability?
Cathleen Berger
A Social and Environmental Certificate for AI Systems
Abhishek Gupta
Artificial Intelligence and Sustainability – Emerging Challenges and Policy Implications
Friederike Rohde, Maike Gossen, Josephin Wagner, and Tilman Santarius
Change is a’ Commoning
Aloha: Sovereignty and Sustainability Are Who We Are
Dennis “Bumpy” Pu‘uhonua Kanahele
City Data Commons against City Greenwashing
Renata Ávila and Guy Weress
Open Climate Now!
Shannon Dosemagen, Emilio Velis, Luis Felipe R. Murillo, Evelin Heidel, Alex Stinson and Michelle Thorne
Klasse Klima: Building a Resilient Collective through Tech and Education
Klasse Klima
The Story is a Forest: Narratives with Mass Resonance
Christine Larivière